Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9438ce0941e0bbaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-06 01:27:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5304f5a8b9955a5fef1332b23a45bc8f SHA-1: 77e666885004ba4afa8a912d23ab97ea5683c4e4 SHA-256: 9438ce0941e0bbaa00ff8b4086224f760270f1a723da62223c35472431fe4423
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious payloads, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+learn+tarot+card+meanings
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9eea4aa945---92961087631.pdf
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/43131314280.pdf
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081afd634341---kudasajobivewomigiw.pdf
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/tejomokonijibuduba.pdf
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fdb166912e33ed48bbe8690a2adede4/17311821380.pdf
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608311b18cd65---28552740783.pdf
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccc56b67d9dc5c4168356060428f3e06/sojarebimubulokojuvib.pdf
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8ea87df9a4eccef7d0fd2a6728ab8c9/57216037054.pdf
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ad7576a71f32bf761eafcf9da56f5b8/xejadijidegigoxelu.pdf
    • https://panificiopasticceriabattaglia.it/file/ketomiruga.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c386bea84---viruziloxifapozewinejavin.pdf
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9fdefd1999---tagezolideduzogap.pdf
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/79623588396.pdf
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/831675110.pdf
    • http://fijiembajak.com/uploads/ck_uploads/files/58686967583.pdf
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908c161e2d1---disefa.pdf
    • https://tycoonmarine.com/userfiles/files/zakudutaxeguxuneludowaza.pdf
    • https://7gking.tw/upload/files/domufixerurarilumepevari.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077eb96c7f72---wokulurapolikenudot.pdf
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muzupele.pdf
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/4393392423.pdf
    • http://togetherwewalkny.org/clients/2/24/2411cc079aa0f0d7fd57f81c6163ecfd/File/zovuzajip.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f168.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF168 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001097a.bin
1f5fb472d1d92eee7c706b9378adc108f55acabd0ee2cb045925129b9396cb0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1097A 17392 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000136c0.bin
ac94d1ad0d9b93e18b558df1747cf890e26a5cf8552771061117bde87381aece
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136C0 10788 bytes